Making disciples isn’t about gathering pupils to listen to your teaching. The real focus is not on teaching people at all–the focus is on loving them.
FRANCIS CHANWhere it gets weird is that nowadays there are millions of people on this earth who call themselves followers of Jesus, but their lives look nothing like His, and they’re not obeying the things that He called them to do.
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God doesn’t want religious duty. He doesn’t want a distracted, half-hearted, ‘Fine, I’ll read a chapter, now are You happy?’ attitude. God wants His word to be a delight to us, so much that we meditate on it day and night.
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Jesus’ call to commitment is clear: He wants all or nothing.
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The message of the Bible is not about God in Heaven who wants to take from you. It’s about God who wants to give to you.
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Why would we need to experience the Comforter if our lives are already comfortable?
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Jesus asks for everything, but we try to give Him less.
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The fact is, I need God to help me love God. And if I need His help to love Him, a perfect being, I definitely need His help to love other, fault-filled humans.
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I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.
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God is not just one thing we add to the mix called life. He wants an invitation from us to permeate everything and every part of us.
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Having faith often means doing what others see as crazy.
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Do you know that nothing you do in this life will ever matter, unless it is about loving God and loving the people he has made?
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We are most alive when we are loving and actively giving ourselves because we were made to do these things.
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We should be so joyful from God’s grace that others would respond by saying, ‘I wish I had your God.
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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses.
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Only the Holy Spirit can give you the power to not think about yourself, to set you free from yourself.
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A key to everything is surrender – to really come before the Lord and say, – I will literally stay here as long as you want me to stay’ or ‘God, I will really go anywhere on the earth.
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